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There have been plenty of really terrible colors in the automotive world, and many more that, like bellbottoms, seemed fashionable at the time. But don't take this list the wrong way. We'd never want to see these colors on a car of our own, but it would be a tragedy if car companies didn't offer weird, unexpected and, yes, ugly colors.

They're a lot better than an endless sea of silver.

Photo Credit: BMW

10.) 1970s Green

We're not exactly sure what to call this pea soup of a color, but it has aged about as well as fondue parties and Cher.

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8.) Prius C Orange

Again, orange is a fantastic color for cars, and we love to see it on anything from old Porsches to the new Boss 302 Mustang. The new Prius C's bluish tangerine is just too weak and too flat to look good, though.

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6.) 1990s Teal

This cheap, thin teal used to be on everything, especially if it came out of a Hyundai or Ford (it was called "calypso green") plant. No matter how many Power Rangers posters you have on the wall, or how many times you've thrown "I Love The ‘90s" parties, this color still sucks donkey balls.

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5.) Euro Lime Green Metallic

We Americans largely skipped out on the metallic pale green that splooshed all over Europe in the ‘90s and ‘00s. Mercedes in particular loved this color, which has aged about as well as Trapper-Keeper notebooks.

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4.) Mary Kay Pink

Maybe it's because we see this color almost exclusively on bloated front-wheel-drive Cadillacs in South Beach (like the one above), but man is Mary Kay pink a bad color. Pink can be fun and bold (think big 1950s cruisers), but Mary Kay's giveaway metallic always looks weak and sad.

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1.) Beige

Most bad colors are at least distinctive and in some way interesting. The champagne beige that you find on cars like the Camry is so unbelievably boring, so oppressively inoffensive that we can't stand to see it on another car.